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Restarting Herd Services

It might happen that Herd displays that a service like FPM is not running for a specific PHP version. This can happen if Herd is unable to properly shut down all background services when you close the app.

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Via the GUI

You may force a restart of all Herd services by clicking on the Herd icon in the menu bar and holding the option key ⌥. This will change the Stop all menu item to Force stop all. Click on it to forcefully stop all Herd services, and then click on Start all to restart them.

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Via the terminal

To kill all stray services, go to your terminal and perform the killall command for every service that is still running, naming the services.

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Force a shutdown of all Herd services

This command shuts down all processes that Herd might run (PHP 7.4 - 8.3, Nginx and Dnsmasq).

Shutdown all Herd services on Apple Silicon Macs

sudo killall nginx-arm64 dnsmasq-arm64 \
php74-fpm \
php80-fpm \
php81-fpm \
php82-fpm \
php83-fpm

Shutdown all Herd services on Intel Macs

sudo killall nginx-x86 dnsmasq-x86 \
php74-fpm \
php80-fpm \
php81-fpm \
php82-fpm \
php83-fpm